Communications start-up Slack gets hacked, just days after Twitch discloses a similar incident. Read more…
An industry with a long history of supporting gay rights is starting to speak out against a new Indiana law that gives legal cover to people who refuse to do business with same-sex couples.Read more…
Google and Johnson & Johnson announced a partnership to develop new robot-assisted surgery technologies but offered few details. Read more…
Michael Schroepfer, Facebook’s vice president of engineering, told developers that the company’s Oculus VR unit would get its PC-based virtual reality headset to consumers this year. That puts a lot of pressure on Oculus.Read more…
On the new app Chosen, would-be stars upload videos of themselves performing a song, which armchair judges then critique with their own response videos. Read more…
Everything about the new phones seems designed to convey a simple message: Samsung has changed. Read more…
In the high-stakes competition for domination of the Internet, Facebook is under pressure to show that it, too, can pursue projects that are more speculative than product.Read more…
The head of Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Lab foresees a day when we all have artificial helpers that understand us, all of the information in the world, and what we need to know next. Read more…
Lyft is adding user profiles of passengers and drivers to its mobile app, so rides can be more tailored and conversational.Read more…
The agency issued a rare statement defending its choice not to take legal action after investigating Google for anticompetitive behavior in 2011 and 2012.Read more…
In closing arguments on Tuesday, top litigators from both sides presented their cases in the gender discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins.Read more…
A study from AAA that entailed putting video cameras in the cars of teenage drivers allowed researchers to watch the excruciating moments before nearly 1,700 crashes.Read more…
A Yale research lab applies rigorous scientific methods to test the effectiveness of educational video games on children. Read more…
The talks come just four months after Slack, which is run by the entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield, raised $120 million at a valuation of more than $1 billion.Read more…
Criminals are luring targets into online sex chats, then persuading them to download apps that siphon off their contact information, passwords and address books. Read more…
The social media giant is said to be in talks with several news publishers, offering to deliver their content quickly, in exchange for a certain loss of control over their readership.Read more…
Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, who wrote “Becoming Steve Jobs,” discuss the evolution of Steve Jobs and how they won Apple’s cooperation for the unauthorized biography of its former chief executive.Read more…
The first lawsuits over the agency’s new rules for Internet regulation were filed on Monday, sooner than expected and months before the rules are expected to take effect.Read more…
While Google Fiber is growing fast, it is still minuscule compared with its traditional rivals. But it shows the potential for delivering specific kinds of ads to local markets.Read more…
Microsoft is serious about making its most lucrative business, Office, relevant for mobile users. What is less clear is how much money it will be able to make from them.Read more…
Stripe has created a new product aimed at helping marketplace start-ups with their mobile payments.Read more…
Square is bringing peer-to-peer payments to businesses and trying to make money on the venture.Read more…
Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price and BlackRock are some of the money managers that have struck deals to acquire shares in Silicon Valley start-ups like Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest.Read more…
The mobile dating application Tinder appointed Christopher Payne to replace its former leader, who was embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit last year.Read more…
This week, the federal government unveiled a new tool that makes public the user analytics for many government websites.Read more…
The antitrust case against Google in Europe has already gained more traction than in the United States. But like their American counterparts, competition officials at the European Commission in Brussels have been loath to bring formal charges against such a successful and powerful company. Read more…
While Amazon can now move its tests from inside a warehouse, the retailer still has a long way to go to realize its vision of autonomous delivery drones.Read more…
A new generation of luxury smartwatches, essentially tiny computers meant to be fashion statements, is beginning to take shape.Read more…